In the span of five years pioneering director DW Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week One and two reels in length these works showed ...

D.W. Griffith was a rising young director at Biograph Studios in New York when he brought a film crew to Cuddebackville that June to escape the city's oppressive heat. It was the first time in the ...

the D.W. Griffith Masterworks Box Set is nothing less than a course in film history. Start with the shorts (shot between 1908 and 1913), which meld narrative urgency with technical experimentation ...

are the none-too-original components of D.W. Griffith's endurable 2-reeler The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, made during the director's final year with Biograph. Griffith called the film his finest ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar®” will celebrate the motion picture highlights and advances of 1908, D.W. Griffith’s first year as a director ...